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02 02 2026 Paul's Pat Life · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Monday, February two,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is Paul's Past Life, Paul's
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  Speaker 2: Past Life. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: just say welcome to everyone joining us as usual, especially
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  Speaker 2: is calling you to do there. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's pray, Father, thank you for this day. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for loving us the way you do. Please help us
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  Speaker 2: to not live in our past lives, but live in
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  Speaker 2: the present with You in Jesus name, I pray Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. Okay, So the lesson writer says it
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  Speaker 2: is a common experience for Christian converts to think of
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  Speaker 2: their lives in terms of before they accepted Christ and after,
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  Speaker 2: just as Paul does in Philippians chapter three. Nevertheless, rightly
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  Speaker 2: or wrongly, I want you to get that point. We
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  Speaker 2: sometimes speak of those who are not Christians as being
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  Speaker 2: quote good people, at least according to the world standards.
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  Speaker 2: Many indeed are in contrast compared to God's standard. No
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  Speaker 2: one is oh oh wait, a minute plot twist, and
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  Speaker 2: that means including us. I'm talking about believers, including us.
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  Speaker 2: And so yesterday I meandered into part of what we
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  Speaker 2: would teach today in Philippians chapter three. Now we're going
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  Speaker 2: to jump in with two feet unapologetically. Philippians chapter three,
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse four. Philippians chapter three, beginning at verse four,
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  Speaker 2: where the Bible reads. So we already have the backdrop
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  Speaker 2: from yesterday where Paul is saying, you know what, my
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  Speaker 2: confidence is not in God, I mean a part of me,
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  Speaker 2: not in my self. I'm yielding myself to the degree
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  Speaker 2: that I am dying to self, dying to sin, so
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  Speaker 2: that God can work through me and raise me up
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  Speaker 2: to be victorious. And now he's going to give his resume,
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  Speaker 2: and why he thinks this way? Now? Right, though I
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  Speaker 2: might have confidence in the flesh. In fact, let me
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  Speaker 2: go to the new English translation, though mine too are significant,
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  Speaker 2: I would have confidence in the flesh. Okay, credentials. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: I should go back to verse three, the last part,
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  Speaker 2: don't rely on your human credentials, though mine too are significant.
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  Speaker 2: If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence
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  Speaker 2: in human credentials, I'm more I was circumcised on the
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  Speaker 2: eighth day from the people of Israel and the tribe
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  Speaker 2: of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to
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  Speaker 2: the law as a pharisee. Can you imagine, like he
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  Speaker 2: was top top shelf. Like he's a top shelf guy
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  Speaker 2: right in my zeal for God, I persecuted the church.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, what, Yeah, I guess that was on
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  Speaker 2: his resume before he got converted. H according to righteousness,
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  Speaker 2: according to the righteousness stipulated by the law, I was blameless.
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  Speaker 2: Oh so he has this resume, but now we are
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  Speaker 2: seeing that he's like, I don't want no part of that.
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  Speaker 2: No more. I'm not going to tick all the boxes anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to say that I am plant based
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  Speaker 2: as a way of righteousness. I'm plant based. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: plant based person. So don't text me or email me. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a plant based person. If it doesn't grow from
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  Speaker 2: the ground, I'm not messing with it. Okay, So fine,
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  Speaker 2: Because you know that the seventh day is the Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord your God, and in it you should
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  Speaker 2: do no work. Yes, you know it's a sign between
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  Speaker 2: Christ and between Christ and us that he's the one
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  Speaker 2: that sanctifies us. You're intellectually right, you're astute, Okay, fine, right, fine,
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  Speaker 2: because you know the great commission that we're to teach, preach, baptize,
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  Speaker 2: and bring people into the faith of Christ. You know
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  Speaker 2: that intellectually. You know what the eighteen forty four means.
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  Speaker 2: You know what the twenty three hundred days prophecy means.
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  Speaker 2: You've understood the seventy weeks prophecy to extreme detail. You
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  Speaker 2: know what that. You know the thirteen thirty five. Oh
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, that's a whole different prophecy. You know
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  Speaker 2: how to argue the point about the one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: forty four thousand congratulations. You are a sinner and that's it,
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  Speaker 2: just like me, saved by grace. I'm just saying. And
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  Speaker 2: there's so many other things that we stack on to
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  Speaker 2: our spiritual resumes, and Paul is teaching us that we
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  Speaker 2: should surrender all our will to God and forget about
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff. Forget about it. And for those who
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  Speaker 2: are on the radio, you're not able to visually see
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  Speaker 2: my passion. The program is not suspended. Nothing happened to
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  Speaker 2: the signal. I just need this to settle in. I
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  Speaker 2: need to slow down the pace here. Think of all
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  Speaker 2: that you have. All of your righteousness says, oh, yes,
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  Speaker 2: we are going back to the book of Isaiah. All
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  Speaker 2: of your righteousness, says, All of my righteousness says, are
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  Speaker 2: as what filthy rags menstrual cloths. That's what That's what
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  Speaker 2: the text actually meant when Isaiah said it, all of
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  Speaker 2: my righteousness is are as clean as menstrual cloths. I
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  Speaker 2: think we can continue now, are we clear here? And
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  Speaker 2: so our lesson number one regarding all of the good
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  Speaker 2: stuff that we can say about ourselves is human credentials
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  Speaker 2: cannot make us righteous, even when they appear impressive by
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  Speaker 2: religious or quote moral standards or moral standards. Okay. And
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  Speaker 2: so when he talks about the flesh in this text
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  Speaker 2: in Philippians chapter three, verses four through six, it means
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  Speaker 2: human effort or status or merit as a basis for righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: So if we think that because we've done X and
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  Speaker 2: it's a spiritual thing, or we've done why because it's
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  Speaker 2: a spiritual thing, and that God owes us something as
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  Speaker 2: a result, that we will be more holy in the
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  Speaker 2: sight of God because we're or obedient, that's not true.
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  Speaker 2: Not only is it true, it's flesh. It's it's unholy.
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  Speaker 2: That concept is unholy and it works against us. And
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  Speaker 2: so the action step here is to name one flesh
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  Speaker 2: based credential you've trusted in. I'm talking about the good
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  Speaker 2: stuff you've trusted in, religious or moral, or cultural, it
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  Speaker 2: could even be professional right and surrender it in prayer,
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  Speaker 2: acknowledging Christ as your only righteousness. Lesson number two, The
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  Speaker 2: Law reveals sin, talking about the Ten Commandments law in
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  Speaker 2: particular at the heart level, exposing our need for Christ's
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  Speaker 2: righteousness rather than our own performance.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh.
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  Speaker 2: In Romans chapter seven, Paul speaking, I had not known sin,
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  Speaker 2: but by the law thou shalt not covet right then
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  Speaker 2: and then, of course, the spirituality of the law is
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  Speaker 2: revealed in Matthew chapter five, verses twenty seven and twenty eight.
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  Speaker 2: And so the heart it means the inner person where
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  Speaker 2: the motives, desires, and thoughts reside. The action step is
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  Speaker 2: that we invite the holy ghosts to expose the hidden
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  Speaker 2: heart level sin and ask for cleansing. There are ways
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  Speaker 2: that we behave. If I say the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: blessed be his name, over and over again, don't be
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  Speaker 2: convinced that I'm a follower. Don't be convinced by that.
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  Speaker 2: Know based on the fruit of righteousness from every person,
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  Speaker 2: but ask God to expose every heart level sin and
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  Speaker 2: ask for cleansing, not behavior modification. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,